Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance

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Teachers' salaries should be based on their students' academic performance

The statements asserts that teachers’ salaries should be based on their students’ academic performance. It is true that with the presence of dedicated teachers, students can have better grades. However, such achievement cannot be done only with teachers; therefore, I firmly disagree with the statement since academic performance is not objective enough to decide teachers’ salaries.

To begin with, academic subjects are generally referred to subjects such as Math, Physics and Literature. Since people usually pay more attention on those subjects, other subjects such as Physical Education, Music and Art are not typically regarded equally important. So, it is necessary to define the scope of “academic performance” in order to better evaluate this statement.

Generally, when people talk about a decent academic performance, they tend to think of a straight-A or an average 3.8 GPA on transcripts. However, not every students is capable of achieving decent grades on all subjects equally. For example, what if a student is interested in French but not in Biology and he performs better in French class than in Biology class. Does it indicate that his French teacher is more dedicated and should gain more salary than his biology teacher does? Maybe that student love French so much and he has spent every minutes on it; therefore, obtain better score than other subjects. It is unreasonable if we decide teachers’ salaries on their students' academic performance since students have prominent talents and interests in specific subjects while perform relatively poorly on others.

Secondly, teachers’ salaries should not be based on their students' academic performance since teachers are sometimes assigned different tasks to help students. Teaching is just one of their duties. There are teachers having no classes but also contribute students’ well-beings. For example, counseling teachers or normally called School Counselors are teaching no subjects but still have great influence on students. They provide academic, career and social-emotional competencies to all students. Their services have nothing to do with academic performance mentioned above. They help students to find their ways to their future as well as assist students to overcome emotional stress. It is demonstrable that their services can have positive impact on students’ academic performance. However, it is more like a complementary effect accompanied with their services since they mainly handle students’ mental problems. Once these problems are solved, students can be more focus on their academic life and obtain better performance.

However, some may argue that students' academic performance reflect directly to their teachers’ dedication. After all, students need to interact with their teachers for years and if teachers neglect their duty, students cannot be inspired to learn and surely cannot gain decent grades.

However, it is not adequate to consider students’ academic performance as a factor to decide teachers’ salaries. Since students have different aptitudes and varied interests in different subjects. Moreover, there are teachers have no classes but devote themselves to assist students to overcome their problems. Therefore, it is unreasonable to take students’ academic performance into consideration when deciding teachers’ salaries.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 16, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'assert'.
Suggestion: assert
The statements asserts that teachers' salaries should be ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, well, while, after all, for example, such as, as well as, it is true, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2935.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 501.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.85828343313 5.05705443957 116% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16619216247 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481037924152 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 914.4 704.065955056 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.6133095851 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.821428571 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8928571429 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.78571428571 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382707907763 0.243740707755 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.128684152339 0.0831039109588 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108108076107 0.0758088955206 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238261057653 0.150359130593 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0897699975403 0.0667264976115 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 48.8420337079 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.41 12.1639044944 135% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 100.480337079 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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